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Michelangelo Buonarroti|Antonio Lafreri|Nicolas Beatrizet

Naked archers shooting at a target attached to a herm, Cupid sleeping below, possibly an allegory related to vice

ca. 1540–60
Engraving, red wash on the exposed penises presumably to obscure them
24 × 35.6 cm (9.4 × 14 in)

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